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Aggies announce changes to defensive staff

John Chavis _ finally _ has been announced, formally, as Texas A&M’s new defensive coordinator.

Coach Kevin Sumlin made the announcement Friday, while also detailing reassignments within his staff.

Chavis will coordinate the defense and coach linebackers.
Terry Price will concentrate on defensive ends. He had coached the entire defensive line.

Mark Hagen will move to coach defensive tackles. He had been the linebackers coach.

Terry Joseph’s duties remain unchanged. He will coach the secondary.

Chavis, who had been the defensive coordinator with LSU, has been on campus at A&M since Jan. 1. He officially resigned from LSU, Jan. 5. But there had been no formal announcement from A&M until Friday. The Baton Rouge Advocate had reported that LSU and A&M had been negotiating a $400,000 contractual buyout.

The newspaper reported that LSU athletic director Joe Alleva sent a letter to Chavis on Jan. 2. The letter requested Chavis pay the $400,000 buyout. Alleva said the buyout kicked in because Chavis left before Jan. 31. There was no buyout if Chavis left the school after Jan. 31.

Chavis was an active participant with Sumlin in the final month of recruiting for A&M.

The Aggies start spring drills, March 2.

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So, let me get this right -- tax payers are going to pay possibly as much as $400.000 because Sumlin had, had to have, absolutely had to have Chavis here before February 1st - so that's like $12,903.22 per day taxpayers will pay just because Sumlin couldn't wait? I assume this is because he is the absolutely best recruiter in the entire United States and therefore must be worth every penny! Could we find out who he is responsible for recruiting so we can break down how much each recruit cost us? Did Sumlin check with anybody about this before indebting Texas A&M to such an outlandish bargain? Is there any oversight on how much money the football program can squander before someone says, "Whoa, lets think about what we could do with that money beside just enrich another football program".

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